You're living in sci-fi fantasy land. Like most sci-fi, these kinds of things will eventually happen, but not any time soon. The biggest, most glaring problem is all of this requires VOICE CONTROL, which no one wants to use out in public. Even worse would be gesture control where you wave your hands around in the air like a crazy person. Nobody wants to dictate an intimate text message to Siri in public, or some business secret information into an email, or some teenager gossiping at the dinner table with their parents. And people don't want to look like cyborgs with gadgets all over their bodies.
A phone screen is small, private, and easy to put away when you're not using it. This meets the vast majority of people's needs already.
You just wrote a bunch of social and technological problems that you believe are hard to solve and put them together without any or almost no argumentation supporting there unsolvable nature.
Your line of thinking is flawed, you really didn’t add anything of relevance.
1. If the problem is privacy, there is nothing more private than something only you can see...only you can see the information displayed on your augmented reality world unless you share It.
2. If the problem is that you don’t want to dictate in public your personal mensages or emails, as you do today you will be able to type them with your fingers.
Except that instead of typing on a touch screen you may type in any surface you see convenient, since augmented reality can be use to project an anchored real sized/whatever sized keyboard in every surface...be it a desk, your kitchen table, the floor or your foreharm.
The thing to keep in mind is that if you do want to dictate a mensage to Siri, in 10 years I can assure you that it will work flawlessly, fluently and you won’t feel like a jerk which is the real problem you are talking about. Good voice recognition is just like talking to somebody on your cellphone and that wouldn’t be strange, at least if you are not using the speakerphone.
3. If the problem is that you want a big screen, augmented reality will give you a screen the size you want and the number of screens you want.
You look to the front and a screen the size of a wall is just there...or maybe you just want a little screen the size of an IPad or an IPhone floating at your belly level.
Maybe you want hundred screens around you, you can have it.
So obviously there is that capability, but screens are just a way of reproduction of 2D content.
Contrary to 2D content, Augmented reality surrounds you...so the Internet,digital art, cinema, porn, photography and tv will adapt to this new constructs. Even AR screens will feel outdated when webpages are not design for them but as 3d environments. That being said if you want them you can have them.
4. Gesture control, waving the hands in the air may look crazy today, 4 years ago so did using an handsfree speaker to make calls, which everybody uses right now.
Besides gestures don’t have to be particularly expansive to work.
For example last year google presented there project, Soli.
A miniaturize radar embedded on a clock (Apple watch why not?).
The radar detects with extrem precision and sensibility, the movements of your other hand fingers moving in the air near the clock.
From there they created a bunch of comfortable, gentle and discreet micro gesture, with which you manipulate 3d virtual objects.
The equivalent to multitouch in the air.
5. Apple augmented reality glasses would function as a door to a new world, Apple Watch, as a permanent conection to that world even when you are not there.
Apple Watch as an notification hub, quick mensage and calling, Siri interaction and gesture input.
Their power, impact and pure coolness will be in a total different league than the iphone could ever be. While maintaining a small form factor, and even more portability since they are wearables.
Apple Watch and Apple glasses (in 10 years) will be just as easy to put away as your Iphone.
The AW obviously already is and the AR glasses in 15 years or less, will have the same form factor of the glasses from Ray-ban which is really easy to put away if you want.
6.People may not want to look like cyborgs with gadget all over there bodys.
On the other side, externally there is nothing cyberpunk about wearing an Apple Watch and some Ray-ban looking glasses.
7. I’m leaving in a fantasy? If I’m
leaving in a fantasy world, google, Microsoft, Apple, the tech gurus and economists are all living in a fantasy world.
We are already living in a goddam fantasy world compared to 20 years ago.
8. You say that smartphones meet the needs of the vast majority.
I agree. So did slavery, horse carriages, forced labor, coal, petrol, telegrams, Mail, beeps, cellphones and so do smartphones...of course that doesn’t matter, the internet replaced the newspaper even if the needs of the vast majority were satisfied.
9. At the end your only argument of relavance is when? Since you don’t think it will happen on your lifetime.
As the Iphone took ten years to get to the pinacle of what it can offer so will wearables.
AW was lauched 3 years ago, Augmented reality glasses will be lauched in the next year or so.
Ten years is a lot for that technology to mature to the product I just described.
